Spring break is coming up for Kingsport City Schools, and among the Kingsport Parks and Recreation Department activities scheduled for the week are an art contest, a youth luncheon, an Easter egg hunt and, of course, open gym.

Call it stretching the truth or little white lies or whatever you wish, but the facts are the facts. How many times have you said, "Don't do that" and then promptly did whatever "that" is yourself? It's the old "Do as I say, not as I do" trick.

New business in Kingsport provides hope, wisdom and emotional support to parents of chronically ill children. Special event and night out for all caregivers Thursday, March 20, 5-9pm at Brushstrokes N' More on East Stone Drive.

When the Harlem Globetrotters bounce into Johnson City on March 24, the players will be the ones on the floor showcasing their basketball-handling wizardry, but it'll be the fans in the stands calling the shots.

"It's the notion of alternating relatively intense exercise with periods of recovery," said Martin Gibala, a kinesiology professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who has studied the topic for 10 years. "And it can be properly scaled for diff